Quality is important
Students of the pharmaceutical, medical and preventive faculties and the faculty of secondary vocational education and higher professional education organized and held a thematic class hour “Quality is important” as part of the World Quality Day. The concept of quality combines many meanings. In the modern world, this concept is associated not only with the quality of goods and services, but also with the quality of life, including issues of ecology, conscious consumption, social sphere, traditions, and a healthy lifestyle. After all, everything we create or acquire is associated with the concept of “quality” and the natural desire of a modern person to have the best and create the best.
Future doctors presented a report on safe food additives, talked about quality, that everything that surrounds us is related to quality and what you need to pay attention to in order to buy a quality product. As part of the event, students got acquainted with the work of the Roskachestvo organization, watched an educational video about how you can check the quality of a variety of products and medicines at home. The most active listeners were able to test and demonstrate an experience of checking the quality of cottage cheese for the presence of starch using iodine, and also answered questions and completed a short written assignment on knowledge of quality control.
Topical issues of ensuring sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population were discussed at the conference
On April 18, the IV Interregional Scientific and Practical Conference “Current Issues of Ensuring the Sanitary and Epidemiological Welfare of the Population” was held.
The initiator and ideological inspiration for the event was the medical and preventive faculty of the Astrakhan State Medical University. The conference was organized by the Astrakhan State Medical University, the Office of the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing in the Astrakhan Region, the Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology of the Astrakhan Region, the Astrakhan Anti-Plague Station, and the Ministry of Health of the Astrakhan Region.
The conference was attended by over 180 specialists from Rospotrebnadzor, doctors from the Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology, 1 medical scientific center of hygiene “Federal Scientific Center for Medical and Preventive Health Risk Management Technologies” of the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Saratov), the information and analytical center of the State Budgetary Healthcare Institution “N.V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute for Emergency Medicine of the Department of Health of Moscow” (Moscow), 2 state medical universities, regional and municipal healthcare institutions, and other organizations related to ensuring the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population from 3 constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
The welcoming speech was given by the Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation Work of the Astrakhan State Medical University, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Marina Samotrueva. She noted the importance of the conference, due to the large-scale socio-economic changes that have taken place in the Russian Federation in recent years, allowing for certain successes in the fight against infectious and non-infectious diseases, and improving the sanitary and hygienic situation. Marina Aleksandrovna paid special attention to the importance of training highly qualified personnel in the medical and preventive profile, possessing research, design and management competencies.
The following also addressed the conference participants with welcoming speeches: Head of the Office of Rospotrebnadzor for the Astrakhan Region, Chief State Sanitary Doctor for the Astrakhan Region Lyudmila Noskova; Deputy Minister of Health of the Astrakhan Region Denis Sergeev; Chief Doctor of the Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology of the Astrakhan Region Denis Kasatkin; Head of the Department of Hygiene of the Medical and Preventive Faculty with a Course of Postgraduate Education of the Astrakhan State Medical University, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor Irina Kudryasheva.
The plenary part of the meeting was devoted to current issues of ensuring the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population and the human resources of Rospotrebnadzor, issues of practice-oriented training in the specialty “Medical and Preventive Care”: transformation of priorities; successes in the development of the medical and preventive faculty of the Astrakhan State Medical University, problems and prospects for staffing, issues of implementing municipal and corporate programs to strengthen public health.
The conference included two sections on the main scientific areas announced for discussion: “Ecology and Hygiene of the Human Environment”, “Epidemiological Surveillance of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases”, which allowed covering a wide range of topics and presenting reports by scientists from Astrakhan, Saratov, Volgograd, and Moscow. The most pressing topics and current issues related to the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population, legal and organizational foundations of activities in the field of ensuring the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population and protecting consumer rights; organization and role of laboratory and instrumental research in the state sanitary and epidemiological surveillance system; organization and maintenance of the social and hygienic monitoring system in the sections of epidemiology, communal hygiene and food hygiene; current issues of risk analysis for public health; modern aspects of the formation of a healthy lifestyle became the focus of attention of scientists and their attempt to answer the question: what to do to improve the quality and duration of human life.
A total of 26 reports were heard. All reports generated great interest and, in the opinion of the audience, covered the most significant problems of ensuring the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population.
The interregional scientific and practical conference “Topical issues of ensuring sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population” allowed to identify promising areas of relevant scientific research for the development of creative activity and intellectual potential of young scientists and specialists. At present, the trends of modern science are such that there is a need to combine high-quality specialization of a scientist in a specialized field with knowledge of related scientific fields. When solving scientific and practical problems, preference should be given to an integrated approach, since it is at the junction of several scientific disciplines and specialties that new knowledge is born. At the same time, the participants noted that the problem of forming a unified preventive environment remains relevant, as a basic intersectoral platform for the implementation of state national policy in the field of forming a healthy lifestyle and protecting the health of citizens.
At the end of the conference, the participants formulated the main conclusions and set new goals for their work. Following the conference, a draft resolution was prepared, the conference materials will be published in a special issue of the electronic collection of scientific papers “Current issues of ensuring the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population.”
The conference organizing committee expresses gratitude to all conference participants for interesting and informative reports, which presented new scientific findings and generalizations on current issues of ensuring sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population. Thanks the leadership of the Ministry of Health of the Astrakhan Region, Rospotrebnadzor for the Astrakhan Region, the Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology of the Astrakhan Region, the Astrakhan Anti-Plague Station of Rospotrebnadzor, the Regional Center for Public Health and Medical Prevention, Astrakhan State Medical University for moral and business support and hopes for further cooperation.
Ceremonial initiation of freshmen
On October 5, a ceremonial initiation ceremony for first-year students of the Faculty of Pharmacy, the Faculty of Preventive Medicine, the Faculty of Clinical Psychology, and the Faculty of Dentistry took place.
The event was opened by the rector of the Astrakhan State Medical University, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor O.A. Bashkina. Olga Aleksandrovna, addressing the students, said that this day is one of the most important events in their lives. Yesterday’s schoolchildren have moved to a new level today and started their path to the profession. The rector noted that their mentors are excellent doctors and scientists, associate professors, candidates, doctors of science and professors of the Astrakhan State Medical University will do everything to ensure that the students fully master the specialty of a doctor.
The first-year students made a solemn promise that they pledged to carry through all their years of study.
The following spoke on behalf of the university’s faculty: Acting Head of the Department of Fundamental Chemistry, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor M.V. Mazhitova; Associate Professor of the Department of Hygiene of the Faculty of Medical and Preventive Medicine with a Course of Postgraduate Education, PhD, Associate Professor M.I. Gololobov; Head of the Department of Psychology and Pedagogy, PhD, Associate Professor, Honored Worker of Higher Education of the Russian Federation L.A. Kostina; Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor I.A. Aksenov; Head of the Department of Dentistry and Maxillofacial Surgery with a Course of Postgraduate Education, PhD, Associate Professor A.P. Brashkin.
They congratulated the first-year students on this wonderful day, which officially marks their status as students of Astrakhan State Medical University.
Words of congratulations were also heard from students of the 1st , 4th and 5th years. They wished the first-year students good luck in their exams and an interesting student life.
After all the parting words and congratulations, the first-year students received their first student document.
Bright musical numbers performed by university students became the highlight of the event.
On receiving a state academic scholarship in an increased amount
Dear students !
To receive a state academic scholarship in an increased amount (for special achievements in academic, research, social, cultural, creative, sports activities), it is necessary to submit to the dean’s office an application of the established form ( Appendix 1 of the Regulation on scholarship provision for students at the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education Astrakhan State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation ) with copies of supporting documents attached within 7 days after the end of the midterm assessment period (before 08.02.2023).